Big Data: Understanding Patterns of Human Behavior

With rapid advances in technology how can psychological science exploit the mountains of information stemming from technology, and what can psychological science teach those developing the technology to optimize the human experience? In this wide-ranging program speakers will describe how they have harnessed technological advances to understand human behavior, and what the promises and pitfalls may be.

The Psychology of Violence

Violence is one of the most inexplicable mysteries of modern human behavior. What has psychology learned over the past decades in the etiology of violent behavior, predictors of who will harm others or themselves, and what can evolutionary approaches teach us about our violent ancestral past and the potential for change.

Changing Neurobiology with Behavior

Psychological science often starts with the premise that our neurobiological milieu shape and influence our behavioral responses. This cross-cutting theme program reverses those causal arrows to explore how behavior—from life experiences to cognitive training to mindfulness attention—can modify underlying biological structure, thus highlighting the bidirectional nature of experiences and biology.